Re: Oz National Archives Release Valentich File

From: Giuliano Marinkovic <giuliano.marinkovic.nul>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 00:06:48 +0200
Archived: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:31:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Oz National Archives Release Valentich File
>From: Giuliano Marinkovic <giuliano.marinkovic.nul>>To: <post.nul>>Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:19:42 +0200>Subject: Oz Australian National Archives Release Valentich File>Dear Colleagues,>Thanks to the efforts and Freedom of Information requests of>researcher Keith Basterfield, National Archives of Australia has>just released previously closed Department of Transport>V116/783/1047 - 315-pages file of Frederick Valentich's>incident.
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Source: AdelaideNow
http://tinyurl.com/butdpmv
July 06, 2012
'Truth' Was Out There After All
An accidental discovery sheds new light on the mysterious
disappearance of a pilot in 1978, writes Miles Kemp.
Unlike a myriad other UFO sightings at the time, the claims of
20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich could not easily be
dismissed as a hoax. Unlike others who said they had seen
strange lights or craft in the sky, Valentich was mid-way
through a detailed and recorded description of his sighting when
he disappeared forever over Bass Strait.
"It is not an aircraft it is..." an air-traffic control
transcript records Valentich as saying at 7.09 and 28 seconds on
the evening of 21 October 1978.
Valentich was part-way through a seven-minute conversation with
Melbourne air traffic control about the craft.
At 7.10pm and 20 seconds, Valentich said: "What I am doing right
now is orbiting and the thing is just orbiting on top of me
also it has a green light and sort of metallic, it's all shiny
(on) the outside." A long metallic clanging sound marked the end
of the transmission and the beginning of a long battle to have
all records of the disappearance made public.
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